[QuantumGood]

Warts are overall very responsive to placebos.

My M.D. father, family practice in the army, later a pathologist, would do what he had learned from other doctors: Put some dye in toothpaste, put it on the wart(s), bandage it, talk about what a miracle cure it was etc. He said it worked the few times he tried it.

[Modified3019]

FYI, food dyes are not inherently inert, and are capable of having antifungal, antiviral, and/or antioxidant effects. Quick examples:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10068-011-0002-0

https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2020/Q3/new-approac...

The pigments fungi produce are so essential to their survival, they can’t defend against pathogens when they are gene edited to stop producing them.

Toothpaste is also far from an inactive substance, there are definitely plausible mechanisms at play with the toothpaste and dye mix that could help suppress/resolve a wart. It would be worth a study, though I’m not sure what one would use to try and achieve a truly inert placebo for comparison without first figuring out what doesn’t work.

[sugarkjube]

Nothing to do with placebo, it's the covering that did the trick, not the talk about miracle cure.

(I discovered this myself when I was a kid, any proper airtight cover is likely to get rid of it, YMMV)